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A zero-sugar fruit drink with a joke for a name, made to be taken every day. APODO is a rebranding project for an açaí and fruit-blend beverage, designed to connect with Gen Z and the wellness audience while preserving the brand's original essence. The solution builds an açaí-first visual system with bold purple packaging, expressive fruit illustrations, preserved flavor names, realistic product mockups, shelf tests, and lifestyle image direction. The result is a richer, more ownable brand world designed for packaging, product photography, social content, retail presence, and Behance storytelling. CALMÔ started from a different question: what if a functional drink looked like something you'd already want in your hand — not because it's good for you, but because it's part of who you are?
The brand was built for a generation that doesn't separate wellbeing from identity. That goes to the gym and to the party. That drinks something functional without announcing it. That takes care of themselves quietly, on their own terms.
Every creative decision in this project — from brand positioning to photography direction to individual image prompts — was developed through an AI-assisted creative process, using Claude as a collaborative art director.
The result is a complete brand system that functions both as an AI generation framework and as a real-world production brief. The same document that generates images also briefs a photographer. The language was written to work in both directions.